And I mean, that's maybe where the problems lie. This game is all jank and all generics, with no specific thing to present except "OMG LOOK AT OUR GRAPHICS!!!!". Which are also pretty unoptimized, so you end up with:

Only a tiny tiny fraction of players can even play it.
Then, the game is utterly generic. Despite how it might look to someone not knowing about it, DOOM 2016 and Eternal are quite unique games and have a very well-designed gameplay flow that even differs divisively between the two.
The writing is horrible and would make even an MCU movie/series writer question their decisions in life.
The magic is still just guns with replaced graphics. They didn't lean into the very premise of the game at all. And all they had to do is play Lichdom Battlemage from 2014 to get some ideas and that game already struggled with the concept. But at least it pulled it off.

Can't really say I'm surprised the game flopped hard. But unlike the dev I would call the underlying idea solid, just not anything about the execution.

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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

do you reccomend atomic heart? I haven't played it due to the supposed russian propaganda (about the war)

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's no propaganda, the studio is in Russia and the game was released shortly before the special military operation by coincidence. They wanted to release it on Defender of the Fatherland day since that's a pretty patriotic day which fits the game pretty well but Putin also wanted to release revenge on that day so now it's all muddled.

I've played it and the game feels more like a parady similar to Fallout so if you count fallout as propaganda then Atomic Heart is also propaganda

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds kinda up my alley then, I am gonna give it a look

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only bad thing really about it is Denuvo (properly implemented it doesn't make the game run like garbage, but I still like to run my game whenever I want without online verification and excessive load times). I might buy it when it's DRM free on GOG and discounted.

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Oof it that is a dealbreaker, I am politically against dwnuvo. I will either check for a crack or wait for GOG aswell

[–] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Without any spoilers, i thought the overall message of the game was VERY anti-russia. But you really need both ends to get the full picture.